Vulnerable Populations
This is why children are more vulnerable to environmental exposures.
What is children's body systems are still rapidly developing; children eat more, drink more, and breathe more in proportion to their body size than adults; children's breathing zone is closer to the ground than adults'; children's bodies may be less able to break down and excrete contaminants; children's behaviors can expose them to more contaminants?
These are signs of elder maltreatment.
What are unexplained or repeated physical injuries, physical neglect and unmet basic needs, rejection of assistance by caregiver, financial mismanagement, withdrawal and passivity, and depression?
This assessment emphasizes the interaction between family members on a daily basis.
What is a functional assessment?
Case management is included in this prevention strategy.
What is Tertiary Prevention?
These include prevention and reduction of firearm-related deaths; identification of improper firearm storage in homes; surveillance of external causes of injury in emergency departments; decreased incidents of homicide, child maltreatment, and physical assaults; prevention and reduction of sexual assaults; and elimination of weapon possession by adolescents on school property.
What are the injury prevention objectives of Healthy People 2020?
These are vulnerable persons who have come to the U.S. from their own country of origin due to disaster, war, or threatening environment and who are unwilling or unable to return there or to avail themselves of its protection because of a well-founded fear of being persecuted.
What is a refugee?
This assessment looks at how families change over time.
What is a developmental assessment?
Examples of this type of prevention strategy include nutrition education, exercise programs, and advocating for access to healthcare.
What is primary prevention?
? = hazard + exposure
What is the formula for risk?
These are sequelae of IPV.
What are premature death, disability, poor mental health, high medical costs, and lost productivity?
These activities can show the family's strengths.
What are ecomaps and genograms?
This is a simple Primary prevention strategy to teach adolescents learning to drive.
What is using a seat belt?
This is a priority Healthy People 2030 overarching goal for vulnerable populations.
What is eliminating health disparities, achieving health equity, and attaining health literacy to improve the health and well-being of all?
These are complications of IPV and pregnancy.
What are depression, low birth weights, and prematurity?
This is the minimum amount of time it takes to complete a family assessment.
What is 15 minutes?
This prevention uses routine testing as one of the strategies.
What is secondary prevention?
This is what a person becomes once obtaining their nursing license.
What is a mandated reporter?
These are signs of child abuse or neglect.
What is unexplained injury, unusual fear of the nurse and others, injuries/wounds not mentioned in history, fractures, including older healed fractures, presence of injuries/wounds/fractures in various stages of healing, subdural hematomas, trauma to genitalia, malnourishment, or dehydration, general poor hygiene or inappropriate dress for weather conditions, and parent considers child to be a “bad child”?
Two or more persons who are joined together by bonds of sharing and emotional closeness ... who identify themselves as being part of this.
What is a family?
Education given to a specific population who already have a particular disease is considered to be which prevention strategy?
What is tertiary prevention?